Author/Editor: Victor Hugo C Alexandrino da Silva, Luiza Antoun de Almeida, Diva Singh.

Release Date:May, 2021

In recent years, we have observed an increase in low-income countries' (LICs) access to international capital markets, especially after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This paper investigates what more...

Author/Editor: Luiza Antoun de Almeida, Thierry Tressel.

Release Date:July, 2020

This paper studies the evolution of non-financial corporate debt among publicly listed companies in major advanced economies between 2010 and 2017. Since 2010, firms have started to rely more on more...

Author/Editor: Ashok Vir Bhatia, Srobona Mitra, Anke Weber, Shekhar Aiyar, Luiza Antoun de Almeida, Cristina Cuervo, Andre O Santos, Tryggvi Gudmundsson.

Release Date:September, 2019

This note weighs the merits of a capital market union (CMU) for Europe, identifies major obstacles in its path, and recommends a set of carefully targeted policy actions. European capital markets are more...

Author/Editor: Luiza Antoun de Almeida, Vybhavi Balasundharam.

Release Date:April, 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of selected structural reforms on output and employment in the short and medium term. It uses a comprehensive cross-country firm-level dataset covering both advanced more...